Life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment in developing countries: a review

A Gallego-Schmid, RRZ Tarpani - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Within developing countries, wastewater treatment (WWT) has improved in recent years but
remains a high priority sustainability challenge. Accordingly, life cycle assessment (LCA) …

Life cycle assessment applied to wastewater treatment: state of the art

L Corominas, J Foley, JS Guest, A Hospido, HF Larsen… - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a technique to quantify the impacts associated with a
product, service or process from cradle-to-grave perspective. Within the field of wastewater …

Nitrogen and phosphorus losses and eutrophication potential associated with fertilizer application to cropland in China

J Huang, C Xu, BG Ridoutt, X Wang, P Ren - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased application of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizer has significantly improved
crop yields and food security in China over the past several decades. However, this has also …

Identifying best existing practice for characterization modeling in life cycle impact assessment

MZ Hauschild, M Goedkoop, J Guinée… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a field of active development. The last
decade has seen prolific publication of new impact assessment methods covering many …

Consequential life cycle assessment: a review

JM Earles, A Halog - The international journal of life cycle assessment, 2011 - Springer
Purpose Over the past two decades, consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) has
emerged as a modeling approach for capturing environmental impacts of product systems …

Life cycle sustainability assessment in the context of sustainability science progress (part 2)

S Sala, F Farioli, A Zamagni - The International Journal of Life Cycle …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose In the context of progress of sustainability science, life cycle thinking and, in
particular, life cycle sustainability assessment may play a crucial role. Environmental …

Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity

MAA Jwaideh, EH Sutanudjaja, C Dalin - The International Journal of Life …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose The intensive application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers on agricultural land
to fertilise crops has caused eutrophication, the nutrient enrichment of waterbodies leading …

Benchmarking the Swedish diet relative to global and national environmental targets—identification of indicator limitations and data gaps

E Moberg, H Karlsson Potter, A Wood, PA Hansson… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
To reduce environmental burdens from the food system, a shift towards environmentally
sustainable diets is needed. In this study, the environmental impacts of the Swedish diet …

Life cycle assessment and its application in wastewater treatment: a brief overview

SS Rashid, SN Harun, MM Hanafiah, KK Razman… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a brief review on wastewater treatment system and the application of life
cycle assessment (LCA) for assessing its environmental performance. An extensive review …

Measurement of agricultural total factor productivity growth incorporating environmental factors: A nutrients balance approach

VN Hoang, T Coelli - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
This article proposes to use nutrient-orientated environmental efficiency (EE) measures to
construct a nutrient total factor productivity index (NTFP). Since nutrient-orientated EE …